About Us

Mission & Vision

Transforming Family’s mission is to cultivate a sense of belonging and hope for the future for transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive youth and their families. Through our peer support programming, we listen, educate, share resources, and create community, both virtually and in-person in Los Angeles.

We envision a world where every transgender and nonbinary person’s gender identity is accepted, supported, and respected.

About Transforming Family

We are a Los Angeles-based family support group for families with transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive children. We provide a supportive environment for children, adolescents, and their families to explore issues of gender identity.

Parents have the opportunity to discuss the challenging issues, raise questions, seek and share resources, and listen to the experiences of others. Our primary goal is to discover, by talking to each other and sharing our experiences, how families and community can best support our trans, nonbinary and gender-expansive youth. We also open this group up to extended family members such as grandparents, aunts, and uncles. Siblings have their own peer support group, as well.

Youth ages 5 to 21 have their own meetings, facilitated by transgender adults, to share their personal experiences and gain knowledge by listening to the experiences of others. ​

While our in-person events are in Los Angeles, we also offer meetings on Zoom that are open to people from outside the SoCal area. To ensure the privacy of our families, we do not publish the time, date, or location of our meetings. If you’d like to attend a Transforming Family meeting, please click the “Get Started” button on the home page to begin the intake process. We will respond as quickly as possible. Once we’ve spoken, we will share the details of the meeting with you. If you have questions, please contact us at familysupport@transformingfamily.org.

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